Impatient iPhone Users Own Apple’s Servers

After today’s MacWorld keynote everyone immediately wanted to do two things: buy a MacBook Air and update their iPhone to 1.1.3. After realizing that you can’t afford another notebook, let alone one that charges $1300 for a 64GB SSD, you probably went with the free option and tried to upgrade your iPhone.

Supposing you have not jailbroken your iPhone then the upgrade to 1.1.3 will be well worth it. The new firmware will bring along Google Maps with cell tower triangulation, webclips, up to nine total home screens, multi-recipient SMS, as well as lyrics, chapters, and subtitles to your media files.

During the keynote, and for sometime afterwards, iTunes was reporting that 1.1.2 was the current firmware version for the iPhone. At the time this post was being written (3PM EST, three hours after the keynote started) the upgrade seems to be available but Apple’s servers are not responsive. This should get better over time, but for now you’ll have to sit tight and keep trying. There are links available to manual download sources, but it’s not nearly as much fun as having iTunes do the work for you. Also, you’ll want to update iTunes before trying to upgrade your phone’s firmware.